Chapter 26 Summary

Fagin runs out, looking for Sikes or a man named Monks at the local bars. He finds Nancy in a back room at one of the bars, and asks her about Sikes. She says she does not know where he is, and that she hopes that Oliver is dead, so that he is out of his misery and her head. Fagin tells her she's just drunk, and she says maybe she is, but she believes that if Toby got out alive, so did Bill. Fagin leaves her, content that Sikes has not returned. Fagin returns home to find Mr. Monks waiting for him. Fagin explains to Monks what has happened to Oliver, and Monks tells him he should have kept the boy with him, rather than sending him with Sikes. He asks Fagin why he couldn't have seen that Oliver got caught stealing...